Otto Moldenhauer

Otto Moldenhauer (born August 30, 1882 in Bornstedt ; † April 27, 1969 in Berlin ) was a German film architect .

Live and act

Moldenhauer went to school in Potsdam and trained as a painter , architect and sculptor as a young man . He then worked as a freelance artist.

In August 1919 Moldenhauer joined the film, as an employee of the architect Paul Leni . In his early films he had to implement Leni's designs, and since 1921 he has also worked as a freelance designer. In this function, Moldenhauer worked for ten years with the director Gerhard Lamprecht until the beginning of the sound film era , for whose realistic, socially committed materials he created some remarkable, naturalistic buildings that are clearly different from the common plush of the cinema equipment as well as the expressionistic forms of this At that time popular "cinemas of the fantastic" took off.

After 1931 Moldenhauer only worked twice with Lamprecht, the results ( A Strange Guest, Madame Bovary ) were far less convincing. During the Third Reich, Moldenhauer's importance waned, his decorations - including buildings for various short films by Piel Jutzi - became pure routine.

Most recently he only worked on other architects ( Hans Ledersteger and Ernst Richter ) , mostly without naming his name . At the end of the war, Otto Moldenhauer largely withdrew from active film work, and after 1945 he received one or two occasional jobs from DEFA .

Filmography (selection)

1919: Prince Cuckoo 1920: The white peacock 1921: The cemetery of the living 1921: confession of women 1921: The experiences of a chambermaid 1923: City in sight 1923: Buddenbrooks 1925: The Notorious 1925: Hanseatic League 1926: The illegitimate 1926: people among each other 1926: Sister Veronika 1927: The Katzensteg 1927: The old Fritz 1928: Under the lantern 1928: Anastasia, the false daughter of the Tsar 1928: The man with the tree frog 1929: On the Reeperbahn at half past twelve 1929: Bobby, the gasoline boy 1930: Two Morals

1931: Between night and morning 1931: The most handsome man in the state 1933: Maturing youth 1933: The master boxer 1934: The Senator 1934: The two seals 1935: The Blessed Excellency 1936: a strange guest 1936: morality 1936: A song accuses 1937: Madame Bovary 1937: In camera 1937: Rooster in the basket 1938: Holm's murderous matter 1938: jokers 1939: D III 88 1939: My husband is not allowed to know 1940: Falstaff in Vienna 1941: Lützow Combat Squadron 1941: Quax, the break pilot 1943: A little summer tune

literature

• Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 5: L - N. Rudolf Lettinger - Lloyd Nolan. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 502.

Web links

• Otto Moldenhauer in the Internet Movie Database (English) - there completely wrong life data
• Otto Moldenhauer at filmportal.de